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A senior New Caledonian politician has ruled out any further cooperation with the president of the French National Assembly Yael Braun-Pivet on the question of New Caledonia's future.

New Caledonia's rival pro- and anti-independence factions both say they are satisfied with the week of separate talks with French government ministers in Paris.

The Constitutional Council backs the thrust of President Macron's reforms despite weeks of protest.

The French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has held separate meetings with New Caledonia's rival factions about the territory's future as the 1998 Noumea Accord expires.

A group of former leaders of Pacific island nations have condemned the AUKUS security pact saying it is "bringing war much closer to home" and goes against the Blue Pacific narrative. Audio

The leader of New Caledonia's Pacific Awakening party has presented his vision on the territory's development to the French government.

News round-up from New Caledonia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Northern Marianas, and Vanuatu

Peter Murrell was being questioned after being taken into police custody.

One of Australia's most influential indigenous leaders Yunupingu has died in the Northern Territory, aged 74.

New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS says it will tell the French Prime Minister of the Kanak people's "sense of humiliation" over the last independence referendum.

News round-up from Vanuatu, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, PNG, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji

News round-up from Vanuatu, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Solomon Islands and Samoa

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency that safety at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station could not be guaranteed until Russian troops left the…

Humza Yousaf said he would concentrate on tackling the cost of living crisis, ending the divisions in the party and making a renewed push for independence.

Analysis - The Greens lay down a challenge as the minor parties approach an election in which both National and Labour are going to need coalition partners to form a government, writes Peter Wilson.

The planned vote could approve a new "voice" to parliament - the first constitutional change in 46 years.

Round-up of news stories from Papua New Guinea, Cook Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu.

New Caledonian pro-independence parties are refusing to meet with the anti-independence side and will only talk directly with the French State.

New Caledonia's pro- and anti-independence leaders have been invited by the French prime minister for talks in Paris about the territory's future status next month.

Tokelau has a new Ulu-o-Tokelau, or head of government, Kelihiano Kalolo.

Panguna mine closer to re-opening; flu kills three in Tonga; Sau set to turn out for Drua; and more

The president says the embattled eastern city's defence goes on and that senior generals back the move.

UN ocean treaty is agreed; visa free travel for ni-Vanuatu citizens to New Caledonia; Nauru inducted into Micronesian Islands Forum, and more